vSAN -- After the vSAN Shutdown & Restart, all the VMs are inaccessible

Products

• VMware vSAN
• VMware vSAN 7.x

Issue/Introduction

Scenario:

The vSAN Cluster was shutdown by using the Shutdown Wizard in the vSphere Client.

When the vSAN Cluster came back online and the Restart Button was clicked, all VMs still show as inaccessible.

Example:

Environment

vSAN 7.x

Cause

Cluster is still in Shutdown State. 

Resolution

1.) Check the Cluster Power Status

Open SSH/Putty Sessions to all vSAN Hosts and run on each Host the following two commands:

 

esxcfg-advcfg -g /VSAN/DOMPauseAllCCPs

esxcfg-advcfg -g /VSAN/IgnoreClusterMemberListUpdates

 

 

--> Check if on any of the Host(s), one or both showing value "1" 

Sample output shows both have set "1": 

 

 

 

2.)  If one or both of the outputs are showing value "1"

Execute on the affected Host(s) one or both of following commands:

 

If DOMPauseAllCCPs is set to "1":

esxcfg-advcfg -s 0 /VSAN/DOMPauseAllCCPs

 

If IgnoreClusterMemberListUpdates is set to "1":

esxcfg-advcfg -s 0 /VSAN/IgnoreClusterMemberListUpdates

Additional Information

vSAN cluster unable to restart after a planned cluster shutdown